You Are Not Stuck In Traffic, You Are The Traffic

Today’s Writing 101 assignment is to pick one of four images and try to write something about it. As I was looking at the image, I found one that struck my mind. It was this image of a busy city. I immediately think to write something about it, particularly about traffic.

This morning, I ride my motorbike from my house to the campus for about 20 minutes while it would normally take only 5-10 minutes. The traffic was so busy and I was stuck into it. As I was looking around, I saw cars, many cars, with only 1 person in each of them. Then I realized what makes the traffic so bad.

Now, imagine there are 100 people stuck in the traffic with me. Assuming each person uses 1 car, there are 100 cars there. If only all of them took the bus, there would only be 2 buses in the road. There won’t be a traffic jam anymore, the problem is solved! To illustrate my point better, look at this video. (Sorry I couldn’t credit the owner of the video because I can’t identify the source. If you know the source, let me know!)

I live in a place where I need a car especially when I need to see my family members or getting to work/school. Believe me, I hate driving, but I need a car to get to places. Making cars more expensive wouldn’t solve anything (they’re already really expensive!). I would suggest making buses more feasible and numerous.

Yeah I agree with you. We can’t just increase the price of the car everywhere! At least in big cities where there are already too many cars we can do it, right?
As with the buses, that’s exactly what we want! But I don’t know, I just think it won’t get better in the near future, considering my country’s current condition 😦

We’re facing the same problem here too. I guess by making buying cars/motorbikes more expensive couldn’t address the root of the problem. No matter how expensive motorvehicles get, people will still buy it because it’s the only way of transporting safely to our destination. The public transport needs a long term plan of revamping. This, I think at least we’re going in the correct direction.

Yeah I agree with the public transportation part
But the problem as I see it is there are way too many vehicles out there on the road! Even the poorest family can still afford a motorbike with that cheap instalment.
I think if we can make the road less cluttered, at least the traffic will get better, right?